Malaysian airlines MH17: Bodies of victims arrive

The coffin of twenty-nine-year-old MH17 First Officer Ahmad Hakimi Hanapi is lowered during his burial in Putrajaya. People across Malaysia held a minute's silence and wore black on Friday as the Southeast Asian country observed a day of mourning to mark the return of the first 20 bodies among its citizens killed when a jetliner was downed last month. Malaysian Airlines (MAS) Flight MH17 crashed after apparently being struck by a missile over war-torn Ukraine on July 17, worsening a year of tragedy for the country following the baffling disappearance of another MAS flight in March. (Source: Reuters)

The remains of a victim of the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 are carried during a repatriation ceremony at KLIA airport in Sepang. (Source: Reuters)

A relative (C) of a victim of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 disaster prays as the plane carrying victims' remains arrives for a repatriation ceremony at the Bunga Raya complex of KLIA airport in Sepang. (Source: Reuters)

The remains of an MH17 victim are carried during a repatriation ceremony at the Bunga Raya complex of KLIA airport in Sepang. (Source: Reuters)

The remains of victims of the MH17 disaster are carried during a repatriation ceremony at the Bunga Raya complex of KLIA airport in Sepang. (Source: Reuters)

Mohamed Salleh, center, father of Nur Shazana, a crew member who was killed in the downing of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, touches his daughter's coffin during a burial ceremony at Taman Selatan Muslim cemetery in Putrajaya, Malaysia on Friday. Carried by soldiers and draped in the national flag, coffins carrying Malaysian victims of Flight MH17 returned home Friday to a country still searching for those on board another doomed jet and a government battling the political fallout of the twin tragedies. (Source: AP)

Sharom Ibrahim, center, mother of Nur Shazana, a Malaysia Airlines crew member who was among the victims onboard Flight MH17, pours water on her grave during a burial ceremony at Taman Selatan Muslim cemetery in Putrajaya, Malaysia. (Source: AP)

The remains of victims of the MH17 disaster are carried from a plane during a repatriation ceremony at the Bunga Raya complex of KLIA airport in Sepang. (Source: Reuters)

Malaysian Army soldiers carry a coffin containing one of the bodies of the downed MH17 flight upon arrival at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia. The bodies and ashes of 20 Malaysians killed when Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over Ukraine in July have arrived in Kuala Lumpur, the first repatriation of victims from the flight to the country.(Source: AP)

The remains of a victim of the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 at KLIA airport in Sepang. (Source: Reuters)

Relatives of the victims of the MH17 disaster react during the repatriation ceremony at the Bunga Raya complex of KLIA airport in Sepang. (Source: Reuters)

People cry as they wait outside Bunga Raya Complex at Kuala Lumpur International Airport before victims' bodies of the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 are flown back, in Sepang, Malaysia. (Source: AP)